E-scooter trial a success TfL says
TfL has published data with operators Lime and Voi showing the “continued success” of the capital’s e-scooter rental trial. It highlights “strong growth in usage, high safety performance,” and evidence that rental e-scooters can be “effectively integrated” into London’s transport network.
The e-scooter trial has expanded over the last four years with rental e-scooters available across over 1,600 parking bays in the 11 participating boroughs. The latest data covers the period between September 2024 and September 2025.
It shows a 54% increase in total trips compared with the previous year, rising from 1.3 million to over 2 million. 95% of trips ended in designated parking bays which demonstrates “high compliance, and that rental e-scooters can be effectively managed to minimise street clutter,” TfL says. A fifth of parking bays are located in areas with fewer transport access options, which, according to TfL, supports first and last mile connectivity.
A 50% increase has been recorded in utilisation, with average usage increasing from 1.0 to 1.5 trips per vehicle per day, increasing in the summer to 2. Moreover, 3,000 people signed up to operators’ access schemes, “demonstrating uptake among disabled people and those on lower incomes,” TfL says.
The data also found that only 0.0007% of trips resulted in a serious injury and zero fatalities were recorded.
“These findings highlight how safety has always been at the forefront of the trial, supporting the Mayor’s Vision Zero target to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads by 2041,” TfL said, adding that “operators have delivered more than 200 safety awareness events since the trial began.”
The findings come as TfL plans to launch a tender to select operators for the next phase of the e-scooter trial, selecting operators to continue the trial and creating “further learning opportunities that can help uplift e-scooter safety standards and continue to influence legislation.”
Regulation, it said, is needed to “provide cities with powers to manage rental e-bike schemes, and data from the e-scooter trial so far underlines the potential value this could bring in improving services and tackling issues like parking.” TfL and the Mayor have “welcomed the introduction of the English Devolution Bill,” that it says would “enable regulations to be made to empower cities to license and regulate shared micromobility schemes, with the flexibility to include e-scooter rental schemes if e-scooters are legalised under future legislation.”
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